Person:Mary Bennett (131)

Dallas Morning News 13 May 1941 Mrs. Mollie M. Coats Dies: Daughter of Early Settlers Mrs. Mollie M. Coats, resident of Dallas County for seventy-nine years and whose parents, James Madison Bennett and Miranda Bennett, were said to have been the fourth white family to settle in Dallas County, died Monday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. B. L. Jones, 4517 Ash Lane. Her parents came to Dallas County from Georgia in 1842 and made the trip by covered wagon, taking up a track of land in what is now the Long Creek community, near Mesquite. The household effects were sent by boat to Jefferson and from were freighted overland. Mrs. Coats was born on the farm, March 16, 1862, and spent her lifetime in the county. In 1880 she was married to S. A. Coats. He preceded her in death. She joined the Baptist Church at Long Creek when she was a girl of 16 years and had been a devout member of that faith ever since. Surviving are four sons and two daughters, Mrs. B. L. Jones and Mrs. Henry Smith, both of Mesquite; J. M. Coats, Lamesa; Ed Coats, Mesquite; Ed Coats, Mesquite; H. B. Coats, Sherman, and J. W. Coats, Dallas; two sisters, Mrs. M. C. Synder and Mrs. Will Yates both of Mesquite; and twenty-four grandchildren and twenty-six great-grandchildren. Services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday at Tripp Church, the Rev. W. H. Wynn and the Rev. C. W. Freeman officiating. Burial will be in Long Creek Cemetery.

1. ↑ United States. 1880 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication T9).
2. ↑ Mary Mollie Bennett Coats, in Find A Grave
   13026037.

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